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...with his clients, mostly married bisexual men. Today fear of such reckless behavior is driving many states -- Minnesota, Colorado, South Carolina and Hawaii among them -- to consider drastic solutions: temporary detention, forced isolation, even jail for so- called recalcitrant carriers. It is not an idle threat. Last month in Pensacola, Fla., a judge ordered a 14-year-old infected with the virus locked up in a local hospital's psychiatric ward for more than a week after hearing evidence that he persisted in sexual activity. The youth was then sent to a state mental health facility...
Other cities celebrating the latest steps in the Reagan Administration's drive to deploy a 600-ship Navy by 1990 included Pensacola, Fla., where the Navy will berth an operational carrier, and Mobile, where two destroyers, two frigates and a minesweeper will be based. In an earlier decision, the Navy said that eight vessels, including the battleship Missouri, will soon call the San Francisco Bay Area home. Said an elated San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein: "We have always been a Navy town, and now we will be a Navy town all over again...
They called themselves Protectors of the Code and claimed to be devoted to traditions of chivalry. But Matthew Goldsby and James Simmons were sentenced to 60 years in prison last week for the unchivalrous bombings last Christmas morning of three Pensacola, Fla., medical facilities where abortions were performed. Kaye Wiggins, Goldsby's fiancee, who told police that the doctors' offices had been attacked "as a gift to Jesus on his birthday," and Simmons' wife Kathy were given five years' probation and fined $2,000 apiece. The decisions were not as harsh as they seemed. Judge Roger Vinson allowed Goldsby...
...numerous incidents of telephone and mail threats to clinics and vandalism of clinic property. Though no casualties have yet to be reported, there seems reason to believe that the explosions may be far more dangerous in the future. James Simmons, arrested in connection with three Christmas-day bombings in Pensacola Ha. Admitted that damage to one of the facilities may have been far more serious: "I had a gas can I was support to set beside the bomb, but beside the bomb, but I forgot it and left it in the car." While investigating a small blast at the National...
Some antiabortion activists admitted to having mixed emotions about the bombings. "This isn't terrorism," insisted the Rev. David Shofner, pastor of West Pensacola Baptist Church and a frequent picketer at abortion clinics. "This is destruction of property. History will prove that the bombers will be the heroes because they stopped the killing of babies." Declared John Burt, head of Our Father's House, a Pensacola home for unmarried mothers: "I don't approve of the means, but I'm glad that the killing has stopped. Upwards of 350 babies are killed each week in Pensacola...